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technik
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 Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2013 10:49 pm Post subject: |
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| defi wrote: | | justbrowsing wrote: | | gluey wrote: | | Price has been dropped to £28.50 for one year. |
Thanks, I wonder if this is a discount/sale price |
It looks like it was, i just went to get it for my 750 live and its back to £47.50, will I be paying this much, I dont think so. |
Traffic renewal is £29.95 as offered to my GO1000 connected via MyTomTom, or EUR 49.95 is displayed if renewing direct from the device, or from the website with no device connected.
Traffic is £26.99 on my Android device (Samsung S2)
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DennisN
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| Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2013 8:03 am Post subject: |
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That sounds a bit like the GPRS Traffic service as opposed to Live Services (although, to be frank, there's hardly anything worth having other than HD Traffic in the Live Services now - TT cameras [joke], TT Local Search [more joke] and some of us have fuel prices [tee hee!] and we all get QuickGPSFix [chortle])
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defi
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| Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2013 12:41 pm Post subject: |
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| technik wrote: | | defi wrote: | | justbrowsing wrote: | | gluey wrote: | | Price has been dropped to £28.50 for one year. |
Thanks, I wonder if this is a discount/sale price |
It looks like it was, i just went to get it for my 750 live and its back to £47.50, will I be paying this much, I dont think so. |
Traffic renewal is £29.95 as offered to my GO1000 connected via MyTomTom, or EUR 49.95 is displayed if renewing direct from the device, or from the website with no device connected.
Traffic is £26.99 on my Android device (Samsung S2) |
You are not wrong  I just checked again, Iclicked on hd traffic and was offered the Live service, which i don't want |
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defi
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| Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2013 12:45 pm Post subject: |
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| DennisN wrote: | | That sounds a bit like the GPRS Traffic service as opposed to Live Services (although, to be frank, there's hardly anything worth having other than HD Traffic in the Live Services now - TT cameras [joke], TT Local Search [more joke] and some of us have fuel prices [tee hee!] and we all get QuickGPSFix [chortle]) |
Just checked again and I cannot get HD traffic without the whole bundle, which as you say is pretty useless. I think I will stick with the regular (free) traffic info |
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Guivre46
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| Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2013 12:16 am Post subject: |
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New Argos catalogue today - Live Tomtom devices come with free lifetime map updates and 3 years free Live services.
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dazzabird
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| Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2013 12:32 pm Post subject: |
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is that for any model ?
Doesnt say much on the Argos website
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Guivre46
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| Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2013 3:21 pm Post subject: |
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You were right to query my post - I got it wrong.
I've got the catalogue in front of me:
1005 Europe Lifetime maps + 3 years Live Services [£279.99]
1005 World Lifetime maps + 1year Live Services
820 UK&RoI Lifetime maps + 1 year Live services
Start25/Start60[UK&RoI]/Via135 Lifetime maps
States that Lifetime maps are worth £79.99 [?]
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DennisN
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| Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2013 9:33 am Post subject: |
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At the rate of £40 a year, I guess that just about tells us how long TomTom will last before they join the likes of Comet, Blockbuster et al.
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matthewj
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| Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2013 2:16 pm Post subject: |
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| If it weren't for the backward steps in those models, that would make it almost worth buying to save the money over time. Hmmm. |
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defi
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| Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2013 10:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Another reason for not using Live services is that tomtom insist that you share data with them. No shared data no live services, fair enough, no live services it is then. |
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| Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2013 11:14 pm Post subject: |
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I don't understand people's objection to data-sharing in this case.
If you want to use LIVE Services to do a local search, or to tell you the weather, or to show you the traffic between home and work, then you have to share your location with TomTom's servers. It couldn't be done any other way!
And any other positional data for generating Traffic information is anonymised before it is ever used.
How TomTom uses your data
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| Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2013 11:52 am Post subject: |
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| defi wrote: | | Another reason for not using Live services is that tomtom insist that you share data with them. No shared data no live services, fair enough, no live services it is then. |
What is the problem? I turned on sharing back in about 1900 when they first started asking for the speed data. This ended up being used in the IQ routes map data, which significantly improved the maps for all. With HD Traffic, it probably sends info that improves the HD Traffic for all. But it isn't tracking "me", and the data is anonymous. Why would you not want it? What would it do that isn't already being done (your cell phone is tracked, your car number plate is read, your bank card is monitored, your computer's IP address is logged)? None of this stops you going about your business in the usual way, and doesn't reveal anything about *you* at all. |
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spook51
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| Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2013 4:04 pm Post subject: |
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| defi wrote: | | Another reason for not using Live services is that tomtom insist that you share data with them. No shared data no live services, fair enough, no live services it is then. |
How do you expect TomTom to provide Live Services relevant to your location if you won't let them know where that location is  |
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| Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2013 4:29 pm Post subject: |
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I'm not paranoid but the bloke following me is 
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defi
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| Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2013 10:48 am Post subject: |
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| matthewj wrote: | | defi wrote: | | Another reason for not using Live services is that tomtom insist that you share data with them. No shared data no live services, fair enough, no live services it is then. |
What is the problem? I turned on sharing back in about 1900 when they first started asking for the speed data. This ended up being used in the IQ routes map data, which significantly improved the maps for all. With HD Traffic, it probably sends info that improves the HD Traffic for all. But it isn't tracking "me", and the data is anonymous. Why would you not want it? What would it do that isn't already being done (your cell phone is tracked, your car number plate is read, your bank card is monitored, your computer's IP address is logged)? None of this stops you going about your business in the usual way, and doesn't reveal anything about *you* at all. |
Because they (Tom tom), are not specific in the data which they are collecting, or as to whether or not that data is stored. Clearly instantaneous location data if fine, storing of that data or of places visited is not. |
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